Africa's Position
This continent lies south of Europe on a world map.
What is Africa?
The ocean to Africa’s WEST.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Straight lines or rivers that separate countries on a map.
What are borders?
A country with no coastline and no access to the sea.
What is landlocked?
The biggest island country off the southeast coast of Africa.
What is Madagascar?
Africa crosses this imaginary line at 0° latitude.
What is the Equator?
The ocean on Africa’s southeast coast.
What is the Indian Ocean?
A country is divided into these political areas, with each having its own leader.
What are countries national territories?
Namibia, Angola, and Morocco all have this kind of boundary.
What is a coastline?
A famous island that belongs to Tanzania.
What is Zanzibar?
Africa lies mainly in these two hemispheres
What are the Northern and Southern hemispheres?
The sea north of Africa, separating it from Europe.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
On maps, countries are shown using these visual boundaries.
What are outline shapes or borders?
Kenya is in this part of Africa (north/south/equator?) and touches the ocean.
What is East Africa, on the Equator, with a coastline?
The capital city of South Africa (administrative capital).
What is Pretoria?
Africa is the ___ largest continent on Earth.
What is the second largest?
Name ALL THREE main oceans/seas around Africa.
What are the Atlantic, Indian and Mediterranean?
Africa has 54 of these independent regions.
What are countries?
Name two landlocked countries in Southern Africa.
What are Botswana and Zimbabwe? (accept: Eswatini, Lesotho, Zambia)
Madagascar is both a _________ and a _________.
What is an island and a country?
Africa stretches from about 20°W to 50°E, these are lines of ________.
What is longitude?
This sea separates Africa from the Arabian Peninsula to the northeast.
What is the Red Sea?
A country that touches the sea has a ___________.
What is a coastline?
Name one African country located exactly on the Equator.
What is Gabon / Congo / DRC / Uganda / Kenya / Somalia? (any one correct)
The capital of Nigeria, Africa’s most populated country.
What is Abuja?